Shakespeare

The women who crop up in Shakespeare's life, his plays and who helped conserve his legacy.

From Bollywood films and Pre-Raphaelite art to productions of Shakespeare in places at war

Trans narratives in pre-Shakespearian drama, plus Twelfth Night and the First Folio.

From Kurosawa and Shostakovich to Zinnie Harris. New takes on the Scottish play.

Shahidha Bari on a new staging of Shakespeare's Henry VI. Why is Warwick a key figure?

Romeo and Juliet reworked, Proust and Rita Mae Brown's coming-of-age tale Rubyfruit Jungle

Scholars Emma Smith, Patrick Gray and Emma Whipday find examples in different dramas.

From Juliet's uncertainty, to finding a phrase for descending the stairs

Islam Issa hears how Adrian Lester and Ewan Fernie are taking Shakespeare to the people

Warwickshire words in the Bard's verse + the real Cleopatra. And playwright Ella Hickson.

Jo Nesbø and Mark Ravenhill on the Scottish Play; Chinua Achebe's novel about leadership.

New Generation Thinker Islam Issa looks at Shakespeare in 1916 Egypt to Arabic pop songs.

Anne McElvoy hears from cartoonists and curators about creating memorable images.

Sam West, Carol Rutter and Michael Dobson join Matthew Sweet to discuss The Winter's Tale.

Edith Hall, Nandini Das and Beatrice Groves on the books which inspired Shakespeare.

Matthew Sweet looks at Macbeth on film and talks to Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro.

Philip Dodd is in extended conversation with actor Antony Sher.

Philip Dodd asks what we understand Shakespeare to mean around the world.

Preti Taneja considers female casting of King Lear.

Preti Taneja explores the politics of language and its impact on Indian literature.

Simon Russell Beale talks about playing King Lear; an appraisal of Derek Jarman's career.

Actress and director Dame Janet Suzman is in extended conversation with Philip Dodd.

Philip Dodd presents a Landmark edition devoted to Shakespeare's The Tempest.